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SYLLABUS

Information Technology: Applications

Objectives:

• To understand the applications of Information technology in organizations.
• To appreciate how information technology can help to improve decision-making in organizations.
• To appreciate how information technology is used to integrate the business disciplines.
• To introduce students to business cases, so they learn to solve business problems with information technology.
• To introduce students to the strategic applications of information technology.
• To introduce students to the issues and problems involved in building complex systems and organizing
information resources.
• To introduce students to the social implications of information technology.
• To introduce students to the management of information systems.

S. No. Topics
Library automation: Planning and implementation, Automation of housekeeping operations – Acquisition,
1.
Cataloguing, Circulation, Serials control OPAC Library management.
2. Library software packages: RFID, LIBSYS, SOUL, WINISIS.

3. Databases: Types and generations, salient features of select bibliographic databases.
4. Communication technology: Fundamentals communication media and components.
5. Network media and types: LAN, MAN, WAN, Intranet.
6. Digital, Virtual and Hybrid libraries: Definition and scope. Recent development.
7. Library and Information Networks with special reference to India: DELNET, INFLIBNET, ERNET, NICNET.
Internet—based resources and services Browsers, search engines, portals, gateways, electronic journals, mailing
8.
list and scholarly discussion lists, bulletin board, computer conference and virtual seminars.